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“To paint, draw, or sculpt the human figure is one of the most demanding of artistic problems.... Explores the artistic possibilities and particular problems of female bodies.”—Library Journal.
Customer Reviews:
Meh (unimpressed sound).......2007-05-31
First of all, the title of the book is a little vague, so it's hard to know what to expect, but I don't think this book does anything expecially well. It's main strength is as a collection of poses, but this is undermined by Civardi's choice of models and his drawing style.
He leaves a lot of the figures unrendered, so you can't really tell what the muscles are, which ones should be visible, or even what's what. He tends to get very dark on the contours (outlines) but leaves a lot of the interior information out entirely- a perfectly valid style, but really annoying when your trying to understand a form in a more rigorous way. Personally, his art looks pretty academic and cold to me, and it's stylized in a way that would be impossible for beginners to imitate, and not very useful to try.
At one point he talks about how artists usually lose the immediacy and excitement of their initial gesture drawings as they develop them into more fully rendered images. Unfortunately, this is always true of his work; the only drawings with any real beauty of life to them are the quick one-minute-or-so studies. The rest are stiff as a board.
Oh, and those, models- Why them? The best I can say about them is that they are pretty average looking and definitely not idealized. I guess in a book about figure drawing I expect to see models who have a well developed physique, or are interesting/noteworthy/attractive in some other way. These women just look sort of plain and bored.
From the author of Tales of Ancient Xenar.......2006-11-10
This book reminds me a lot of The Nude Figure: A Visual Reference for Artists by Mark Edwards Smith. However, unlike that book, this book doesn't use any photographs and it actually has text. But like the Nude Figure, this book explains mostly how the female body responds to certain poses and how it affects the skeletal structure. Very little is offered here in the way of drawing technique. But if you're someone who prefers to buy books which contain female nude in art. you might be disappointed to find that only 2 different models are used in this book whereas the Nude Figure has around 10 times that many including male models.
Drawing the female nude.......2005-08-12
A well writen and illustrated book. Mr. Civardi has writen and illustrated a top notch "how to" book with many fine drawings of his two female models. I found the book easy to read and the instuctions easy to follow.
Wonderful Assortment of Poses.......2004-01-27
Being an artist who is looking for books that contain a variety of poses, I stumbled upon a gold-mine with this book. The sketches are clean and the lines are beautiful, making it a perfect book to work from for figure drawings. This book is an awesome reference tool for anyone.
Very good book to Brush up your pencilling skills.......2002-09-08
I study and sketch forms, and was hooked by the excellent poses in this book. Its a treat to practice sketching all the poses in this book. I bought this book at the local BN out of impluse ...and enjoying my purchase very much. Tried out a complex pose yesterday, very gratifing.
I am not sure about the instructional pose in the book (on a glance I didnt see much). WHich is not crictcal for me, as all I need was some poses to practice from.
So I would say this book is aimed at medium to advance sketchers and not for beginners in pencilling.
PS: The second model is excellent ;)
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- This is an OK book
- Bridman's "other" book
- This book should not have been republished without some revision
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Book Description
An excellent reference from one of the foremost figure-drawing teachers, this classic manual provides artists with invaluable instructions on rendering the intricacies of the female figure. Bridgman's photographs and progressive drawings offer students and other beginning artists a suitable alternative to the use of costly live models. 32 black-and-white photographs; 37 drawings.
Customer Reviews:
This is an OK book.......2007-06-02
Actually I bought this book to my husband, he is a great illustrator and comics artist, he likes to buy this kind of book looking for new ways of drawing the human body... He got two or three new things from this one, what is a good sign... Well, no complains at all. It made us buy the "Bridgman's Complete Guide to Drawing from Life".
Bridman's "other" book.......2007-01-09
I have a deep and abiding admiration for Bridgman and all his work. This one however is a bit of a departure from his other works. It consists of photographs of models and scetches and studies of those photographs, with no text, explainations, or breakdowns of the information. While I have always found his books more useful for their illustrations than their text, the ad hoc feeling of this text left me at sea at first. However, it is useful if you want to look at his choices in how he simplifies the form, accentuates aspects of the body and, as always uses line weight. The only reason I rate this as mediocre is that there are very few drawings and the photo reproduction is not very good.
This book should not have been republished without some revision.......2006-04-06
This book is nothing more than a few photographs from the 1950's, with a couple of very loose interpretations of the photos. There is very little detail to the sketches, and even less text. A book for the beginner this is not!
I guess for 7 bucks it's not too bad.
Rick S
...For Bridgman Completists..........2006-03-12
This book's intended target is mainly die-hard, enthusiastic, Bridgman completists- which pretty much describes me perfectly these days.
Since I actually revere Bridgman as a genius, I felt I almost *had* to get this book. In a way, I'm actually glad I did, at least for curiosity's sake(!). I now understand why this book has been out-of-print. Here's what it contains: 32 'average-quality' black & white photos- 26 of a nude female model; 4 of a nude male & female couple; and then 2 of a nude male model only. Many photos are cropped; some are completely full-figured. Two props are used: a large, shiny ball, and then a medium-sized piece of drapery. Bridgman's drawings are placed next to most photos- he usually depicts a part of the model in his famous, beautiful, and popular-classic style. The main problem here, as with many of Bridgman's works, is that the drawings are *mainly* sketchy & faded. Some of this is obviously due to this being originally printed in 1935. But here, some drawings are *shockingly* faded- almost completely useless(!). Even more odd, a few of these sketches are crystal clear, almost as if someone had re-traced them. Additionally, the quantity of drawings here is severely lacking. If it weren't for Bridgman's exceedingly popular name, it'd be a joke anyone would think this worth reprinting. Yet as a Bridgman fan, I *did* buy it- I just couldn't restrain my curiosity. And keep in mind: when I say the drawings here are *sketchy*, I mean they're even *more* so than in Bridgman's nearly-famous The Human Machine. For the highest quality Bridgman work, in my opinion at least, see The Book of a Hundred Hands, Constructive Anatomy, or Bridgman's Complete Guide to Drawing from Life. These 3 are *currently* my favorite Bridgman works.
THE BOTTOM LINE- ONLY THE MOST ENTHUSIASTIC BRIDGMAN COMPLETISTS NEED APPLY.
P.S. Bridgman's Complete Guide to Drawing from Life mentions *this* book as being included within its pages. However- I can't for the life of me find any of these drawings in that Complete Guide. If any *are* included, they certainly ain't easy to find!
Product Description
1971 reprint of 1943 material by Andrew Loomis. It has 33 pages of instruction on drawing the female nude, and four page of instruction on the male nude. Loomis' 1943 work of the same name is quite sought after. There are a number of full-page studies in this book, with three in color. The emphasis in the instruction is portrayal of the figure in motion, or in unusual positions.
The book measures 10 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches.
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From understanding the basics of human anatomy to capturing the grace of the female nude to accurately depicting a person’s figure and form, this covers it all: choosing and using tools and materials, capturing both still poses and motion, and completing exciting, skill-building projects. “Detailed and engaging projects. Highly recommended.”—Library Journal.
Customer Reviews:
It's overpriced.......2006-06-20
"The Beginner's Guide to Drawing People" by Patricia Monahan
It is way overpriced. Besides, offering a drawing book that offers FEMALE nude studies, and neglects entirely, MALE nude studies, does not make the book a bargain, especially when it is titled "Drawing PEOPLE". If a book is about drawing PEOPLE, shouldn't there be MALE people as well?
This book has 216 pages. That's twice the number of pages that most figure drawing books have, and the FOUR authors still limit it to nude female anatomy? Is that sexist, or merely neglectful?
The best "instructional" books always come from the singular vision of one author. Sure enough, this book has a "fractured" feel.
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- Extremely excellent, multi-angled- pose file 6...
- weakest link
- A welcome addition to my library
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Books Nippan , and
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Extremely excellent, multi-angled- pose file 6..........2006-06-21
...one of my favorites in the series, right along with pose files 8 and even 5...
This is tied with Pose File 8 for being my absolute favorite in the series. This series has 9 volumes, last time I checked, and is filled with fantastic photo reference! Each volume features beautiful female models in various poses seen from many different angles. The photos are in black & white, and all models are asian & female, with the exception of this volume, which actually includes males as well. The male models wear speedo-type bathing suits; the females are completely nude. This is one of the *BEST* volumes in the series regarding actual photo quality- extremely high production value(!)- whereas some other volumes were a bit grainy looking & even poorly cropped at times. Easily one of my favorite-ever photo references(!). Even though these poses aren't the most interesting in the series, the inclusion of males here makes this one of the best. Pose selection aside, we still get all the essential reference for drawing figures from *every* conceivable angle: standing, squatting, kneeling, sitting, reclining, and even on all 4's. And some of the poses *are* pretty creative(!).
At 8-1/4" x 11-5/8", and about 160 pages, it's one of the best & most convenient-sized paperback references I've seen. Amazingly, at this time, this series is hard to find & keep in print. If you're able to get a copy, and at a decent price, it's *easily* worth getting- exceedingly great with learning to draw figures from memory. My highest recommendation!
weakest link.......2000-03-11
Of the series of Pose Files this volume is the weakest. That is unless the artist is looking for static and mime poses with the series' least physically interesting models. This is the only pose file in the first nine volumes to include male models in largely disappointing para-martial poses. A model from Pose File 4 figures in several sitting poses using a white box. These constitute the most useful elements of the volume. Pose Files 2 & 3 offer more artistically interesting static poses.
A welcome addition to my library.......1999-12-25
Pose File 6 is one of the jewels of my art reference collection. Thumbing through it, I get an idea for a new drawing on each page! The male model's poses are especially useful. Anyone with an interest in action illustration would do well to purchase this book.
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- Instructive and Productive
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The Beginner's Guide The Female Nude
Ian Sidaway
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“A fine addition to the genre...gets you working immediately and rapidly develops your skills in a wide array of mediums. Students will become acquainted with equipment and with what each medium...can do....Capture the body in three classic poses....Twelve projects take the student through every step of the process, while showing how a professional might take on the challenge.” —Arts Materials Retailer.
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Instructive and Productive.......2003-11-01
'The Beginner's Guide' is an excellent book for artists and those wanting to improve their technique. The female nude is a beautiful subject for developing line and texture, and Sidaway explains how to achieve a level of expertise in easy to follow steps. As a beginner myself, I found the advice invaluable.
As well as being a book focusing on technique, the author lightens the text with anecdotes. On pages 34-41, he recounts an incident involving me and two of my artist friends:
'Schwarz had been having private lessons in my studio and was beginning to blossom as a real painter. So I gave him my book and told him to study it at home. From what he told me later, he showed it to Sylvester Stallone and Woody Allen one night in his apartment, just before Goldie Hawn was to arrive. Woody was ecstatic and urged Schwarz to ask Goldie if they could paint her nude. Apparently Stallone emitted some sort of bovine bellow, rubbed his perspiring hands together and fetched a pencil from the phone stand. Not long after, Goldie arrived, beautiful as always, and after some small talk and tall cocktails, Schwarz gathered enough gumption to stammer, "Goldie, can Sly and Woody and I paint you in the nude?" Without hesitating, Goldie replied, "Sure, guys, but leave your socks on. I just adore argyles." So the three shed everything, including their inhibitions, and all went well till Goldie said that Sly's pencil was blunt through overuse and that Woody's name was a gross overstatement of his reaction. Fearing a similar assessment, Schwarz quickly covered himself with postage stamp.'
Ian Sidaway's book is a practical, easily read manual.
Great.......2002-02-15
This book is great. I used it to help me with my very first attempt at drawing the figure. But what's even better, it covers a range of mediums from charcoal to Pen and Wash. Photos of very nice models too.
Book Description
Over 150 full page, high quality figure pose photographs carefully lighted for use as drawing and painting reference.
Designed for students interested not merely in drawing figures accurately, but in ideal figures as they are described in clear lighting. After all, the translation of three-dimensional form onto a two-dimensional page or canvas is purely the representation of light as it streams across form. Careful attention to the lighting of a subject is therefore at the very purpose of any artist's depiction of graphic and atmospheric art.
First chapter describes proportions in standing poses, illuminated in three distinct manners: ambient, form (single-source), and rim light. Then standing, leaning, seated, kneeling, and reclining—foreshortened poses. Particular attention is given to the pattern of light and shadow in each pose. It is easy to observe the crest-lights and highlights, indicating the joining of two or more planes.
The last chapters of this book are dedicated to head, expressions and hands. Here again, our model conforms to the conventional (and current) ideal arrangement of features.
A good figure draftsman is not a copyist. He/she instead designs the model and his/her pose. This book inspires students to contemplate their subject before plunging into a drawing or painting. Is she serene or nervous? Does he appear patrician or a dockworker? The student is encouraged to push expression...by all means, characterize!
In Hanna Pawlowska, we have an elegant, ideal female model posed at times barefoot, or in heels. These images are intended as an opportunity to cultivate the ideal in the student's interpretation of the human form. Paying particular attention to the attitude she exudes, from fingers to toes. Art and acting have much in common.
The Femle Nude I: A Pose Book For Artists is an ideal reference book for professional artists, illustrators, comic book artists, students, colleges and universities, and for all those who appreciate the elegance, rhythm and beauty of the human form.
Customer Reviews:
Figure artist will like this........2007-01-20
This is a good book, not great but good . I like to draw from a pose book like this and I love the large black and white photos.
The book is all one model who is perfect on just about all levels and the photographs are top notch, but the pose's are a little cheese cakey and in some shots she has on high heels.
The model is placed on a solid black background and I think it push's the figure out in all parts but the hair.
I do think this is worth buying but I don't think it's worth the $45.00 thats on the book.
If I can not draw from life then drawing from a book like this can be a big help.
I hope they come out with more, but for less money.
A bit wierd, but still useful.......2006-10-23
As a costume designer it is often difficult to find pose books that have "normal" poses that are not a photo of a body somehow artistically contorted into a pretzel or unrecognizeably foreshortened. This book has some very useful references for me and for that reason I like it. I do have to say, however, some of the poses seem right out of a 1950s pinup magazine--and the stripper shoes and stripper pole shots are a little over the top. Still useful.
Say "cheese" cake.......2006-01-04
I ordered this book because of the glowing reviews. Even the review that was negative sited "faults" that I view as pluses. I returned this book as soon as it arrived because I found the poses to be cliched cheese cake for the most part.
YOU MUST PURCHASE THIS BOOK.......2005-09-21
This book is essential for all artists. each shot is posed and designed so beautifully, that it reaches the level of perfection. your drawings will tremendiously improve if you study from THE FEMALE NUDE I. it's impossible to flip through the book, without getting an intense desire to draw. and then you sit in awe, from the fact that a book can have such an impact on you. YOU MUST PURCHASE THIS BOOK!!!!!
A MUST MUST ABSOLUTELY MUST HAVE... and here's why.......2005-09-13
If you really want to learn to draw... buy this book. Don't hesitate. This is the best pose book I have ever seen! Carefully designed by an artist for artists. Each pose is a full page. It's in black and white, so you can really work out your values / tones without getting distracted by color. The model is perfection itself, not a stick figure but curvy, streamlined with amazing muscle tone. Loads of varied poses and so well arranged. She poses barefoot and in heels. In heels she strikes a totally different attitude, you don't see this in other books. No dull expressionless faces, she's alive from head to toe. Having a great model is half way to a great drawing.
I drew all summer from this book and made rapid progress. It is so easy to read what her skeletal structure and muscles are doing. The poses are rhythmical and lyrical, a pleasure to draw. I even did a large oil painting using page 68. You can easily use color since the highlights and crestlights are so well described in the poses and color is secondary to values.
I can't wait for the male pose book to come out.
More books please!!!!
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Seen in Tight, Sizzle and elsewhere, Lopez has an uncanny knack at translating to paper the disarming innocence and guilt-free freshness of women who have just entered adulthood. Here is a gallery of tender fresh blooms, All-American sweetie pies in all their stunning variety. Who needs a teddy bear when you can cuddle with these!
Customer Reviews:
Disappointing.......2006-06-10
I liked the first volume a lot. It was full of great drawings and paintings of lovely, happy models. They were all beautifully done, pinup-sexy without being crude. I hoped that JB2 would be more of the same, or maybe more advanced work along the same lines.
Well, almost. This is just the pencil drawings, without the watercolors that brightened the first volume. Many of them tend towards the dark. The white/black balance would have been a better match to African or Indian features, but didn't really suit the European features on all but one of the models. Depilation was rampant, as in the first volume - normal fuzziness suits me just fine, but smooth isn't a bad look. It exaggerates the youthfulness that Lopez prizes, but Lisa (p.42) was just a bit much. And there was something else that I just couldn't put my finger on --
-- until I saw the drawing of Monica (p.37). That showed a real failure to maintain proportion, with her right hand grotesquely enlarged. No credible foreshortening could explain that distortion. Then, when I looked more, a few other drawings showed similar oddities. Was Kirsten (p.40) actually chubby - not a bad thing, necessarily - or did she suffer misproportion as well?
This looks like what was left over after Lopez's notebooks were picked over for the first JB. He should have quit while he was ahead.
//wiredweird
Just Beautiful.......2006-06-05
Lopez has put together a truly lovely set of pencil drawings and watercolors. He has a wonderful sense of what makes a figure enticing. Above all, that includes the happy expressions and poses of the models - they really seem to love posing, and love being seen as beautiful. Pictures generally consist of the model only, often with a bit of un-frilly lingerie being set aside, but no exotica. One unusual feature stands out, though: Lopez's frequent choice of very young-looking figures. That work has appeared in magazines with titles like "Barely Legal," so sensitive viewers may want to think about whether or not this suits their taste.
Only four stars because the models and poses, however lovely, tend towards a sameness.
//wiredweird
Just Bloomed 1 and 2.......2006-03-06
It does not get any better ...wholesone yet very sensous to erotic. The best is the expressions are so wonderful casual yet intimate which I found to be rare and a refreshing tribute to the female gender.
If you like this, which I can not believe any reasonably normal healthy person wouldn't you will like Natural Beauties and the websites Domai and Met Girls.
I would think "God" intended the respectful appreciation of the female character and form to be something of this nature.
An excellent book for artists.......2003-01-30
Boris is right on target with this one. I highly reccomend this book for nude artists. the drawings in this book are the way nudes should be done.
Wonderful Artist.......2002-12-27
I had a drawing done of me by this artist and was EXTREMELY pleased.. the likeness was INCREDIBLE.. this book is also incredible... this is one talented person.
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